November 19, 2010
Bless you for all you have done and I sincerely hope with all my heart…
Dear Mark Hamilton:
I am sorry to hear of your troubles, for you have done a lot for me with your books. I have read seven of them and they have changed my life. I had a massive stroke when I was 69 years old. That was 13 years ago, and since then my life has been horrible.
Five months after the stroke I had five heart attacks in two days and my heart stopped beating, and then I had other complications. Five years later I had cancer, and that was the worst of it all. I wanted to just give up, for I had nothing but pain and was too weak to do anything except the simplest things. Where I had once done everything, I could no longer do much of anything.
I would start out to the doctor's office and get lost, even though I had lived here 15 years. It would take hours. My husband was injured in the service and was not much help. I had eye surgery for cataracts and almost lost all my eyesight, lost most of my hearing, and lost my digestive system from taking four times the normal dosage of chemo and five weeks of radiation.
I lived on chicken noodle soup, chicken broth, and cream of wheat for years, and I still have times when I have to go back to them, for now I have diverticulitis, which I never had before. I was in the hospital for two weeks and could not eat or drink anything because of vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding. I checked out and came home, and then I got a letter from you and my life changed.
I read that book, and the next, and the next, and learned how to cope with my illness and how to live with what I had instead of always looking back at the worst. I wanted another business, but was too weak then, and am still too weak to handle one, so I have to find my pleasures where I can. I have a computer and can contact people like you, and you will never know how much you have helped.
You have devoted over 30 years of your life to us, and we love you. I love all of you, for that is the kind of life I would love to live. I have missed out on so much in the last 13 years, and there is joy in my heart to know that things will soon change and we all can be happy again. This is a wonderful country, and it could be a lot better if we were all living the Neothink life. I practice that every day since reading your first book.
I do hope this letter will help you, and that you get thousands and millions more, for I know there are other people out there who feel like I do. I have worked hard all my life, and it hurts now to know that most of the money I have to live on goes to taxes and insurance, and everything goes up every month. If anyone had told me that I would be paying nearly $500 a month for utilities alone — no food, no pleasures, nothing else — just taxes and insurance on the house, the car, and me and my husband when he was alive, I would not have believed it. It gets higher every month, and I wonder what will happen if we do not see the Neothink life soon.
Bless you for all you have done, and I sincerely hope with all my heart that all the people you have helped come to help you. — Louise Morton. I am 82 years old, but I will not give up as long as I live.
Lightly edited for length and clarity.